Re: [BackupPC-users] Archiving to Windows SMB

[Rob O. <ro...@bi...>]

As I understand it, the windows file system is incapable of properly
storing BackupPC data, because of the need to use hardlinks.  This means
that a windows drive cannot be used for the pool, nor can it be used to
accurately back up or clone the pool.

A windows computer could certainly access the backups, by way of the cgi
interface.

Is there a particular reason why you're interested in saving the backups
on a windows machine?  Maybe there's another way of doing what you're
trying to accomplish.

-Rob

Jacob wrote:
> OK, so, say I were to mount an SMB share using cifs, and have BackupPC go there? Would that work? Or does it need hardlinks in the actual archive store?
>
> If I cannot use a Windows computer, can I store it somewhere else on my computer then, and have the Windows computer access it? Or is that going to hit the same problem? Essentially, the Windows computer creates redundant backups of what BackupPC makes using Windows-only *sniff* software.
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:58:11 -0500
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <ch...@re...> wrote:
>
>   
>> On 07/19 08:36 , Jacob wrote:
>>     
>>> I have set up BackupPC almost to the point of perfection (yay!) except
>>> that it doesn't store its backups on a central Windows computer. I'd like
>>> it to store all its backups through SMB, if that's possible.
>>>       
>> Can't be done. Windows doesn't do hardlinks in the way that Unix does; and
>> BackupPC depends on hardlinks to function.
>>
>>
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